Journalists were invited to attend a high-level media briefing in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday, 1 April…
ESA Space HPC – ESA’s New Supercomputer
ESA Space HPC is the European Space Agency’s new high-performance computing platform designed to meet the…
Here’s How We Could Quickly Raise Temperatures on Mars
Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The…
Webb snaps photographs of Asteroid 2024 YR4
This image shows Webb’s recent observation of the asteroid 2024 YR4 using both its Near-Infrared Camera…
NASA’s Rover to Explore the Lunar South Pole Is Taking Shape
By Andy Tomaswick April 3, 2025 Sometimes, a brief update is all that is needed to…
ESA – Up for space
Two space explorers met recently at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre in Germany – one returning from…
ESA – Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on 2 March 2024. The…
Antarctic subglacial lakes threaten ice sheet stability
There is a series of lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier, part of an extensive network of meltwater…
A chance alignment in Lupus
The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC…
20 years of Uranus observations
The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the Sun tipped on its side, is a weird…